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"We didn't spend the money or take the time to develop alternative plans." -- Berkshire Hills School Committee Chair Stephen Bannon

After its second defeat in less than a year by Great Barrington voters, the outcome of the vote to renovate Monument Mountain Regional High School appeared to surprise Berkshire Hills School Committee Chair Stephen Bannon.

As quoted in The Berkshire Edge: “We don’t have an official plan B,” Bannon said wearily, while waiting in Town Clerk Marie Ryan’s office for the tribulation of Great Barrington results. “We didn’t spend the money or take the time to develop alternative plans.”

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BITS & BYTES: ‘Jubilee’ at Fisher Center; Ancram Center for the Arts presents regional premiere; ‘Tosca’ at Glimmerglass Festival; Aston Magna 2025 concert season;...

Replete with dancing bears and bags of luck, and set on the day after the Emancipation Proclamation, “Jubilee” joyfully asks what the world might become when all people are truly free.

EYES TO THE SKY: Star-spangled heavens. Fireflies flash from treetops to terra firma

Summer’s brightest stars appear, echoing these Earth-bound lights, beginning around 9:20 p.m. through mid-month.

BITS & BYTES: Kyle Marshall at PS21; Yiddish Book Center presents Yidstock 2025; Gaby Moreno at The Clark; Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley at...

The evening-long dance piece is set to composer Julius Eastman’s jubilant work of the same title, “Femenine” is a vibrant embodiment of queer joy, celebrating Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people and artistry in times of resilience and solidarity.

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